, We know that Germany and japan are conducting their military and naval operations with a joint plan. That plan considers all peoples and nations which are not helping the Axis Powers, as common enemies of each and everyone of the Axis Powers ... RememberAardolie (produktie, insrallaries)Cohen, J. B.DuitslandJonai, MirsoemasaKoopvaardij, JapanseRoosevelt, F. D.Sowjet-UnieJAPAN EN DUITSLANDalways that Germany and Italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United States just as much as they consider themselves at war with Britain and Russia ... We expect to eliminate the danger from japan, but it would serve us ill if we accomplished that and found that the rest of the world was dominated by Hitler and Mussolini' I